untouched, and has a roof enriched with some beautiful carved woodwork,
the painted heads of kings and bishops, and some great mullioned
windows. Over the buttery is the audit-room, hung with ancient and rare
tapestries, and containing a large chest known as Wykeham's money box.
The original schoolroom was in the basement, and has long been put to
other uses. The chantry, the beautiful cloisters, and the chapel tower
were all built after the founder's death, but he provided a wooden bell
tower, which stood away from the chapel, so that the main building
should not be injured by the vibration of the bells. The remaining
portions are mostly modern, and the foundation has naturally been much
enlarged since Wykeham's day, the last addition being the gateway in
Kingsgate Street, erected as a memorial to the many Wykehamists who
fell in the South African War.

On the wall of a passage adjoining the kitchen is a singular painting,
supposed to be emblematical of a "trusty servant", compounded of a man,
a hog, a deer, and an ass. The explanatory words beneath it are
attributed to Dr. Christopher Jonson, headmaster from 1560 to 1571.

With the completion of Winchester College, Wykeham turned his attention
to the Cathedral, although he was then seventy years of age. He lived to
see his munificence bearing good fruit, and his foundations flourishing
in reputation and usefulness; so that when he lay down to die, on
September 27, 1404, in his palace of Bishops' Waltham, he could look
back to a long life spent in the service of his Maker. The funeral
procession moved slowly along the ten miles that separated palace from
Cathedral through crowds of people mourning his loss. At the Cathedral
door the prior met the procession, and the great bishop-builder was laid
to rest in the beautiful chantry he had himself prepared. Four days
before his death he made and signed his will, in which he bestowed gifts